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    "id": 1373203,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1373203/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kamukunji, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Yusuf Hassan",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 398,
        "legal_name": "Yusuf Hassan Abdi",
        "slug": "yusuf-hassan-abdi"
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    "content": "A group of multi-agency undercover operatives have put their focus on the business district of Eastleigh. They have targeted wholesale shops trading in milk products more specifically, powdered milk. They have, since January, carried out raids in shops and have been arresting traders. Yesterday, the heavily armed security agents carried out what looked like a commando anti-terror attack operation thus disrupting business in the crowded Eastleigh business hub. Eventually, this led to closure of business district activities along First Avenue, which is one of the busiest trading areas in the country. It caused business losses running into millions of shillings. The security agents refused to identify themselves. They did not have a search warrant and used brute force to vandalise and break into the shops owned by individuals. When a curious crowd gathered outside this particular place, they started terrorising the population by firing live bullets into the air and eventually called for reinforcement from the police who teargassed a densely populated neighbourhood with hospitals, schools, elderly people, women and children. They collected unspecified and undocumented goods without leaving any documentation or signed inventories of the confiscated items – no accountability. This says a lot about the behaviour of those officials, which I think is contrary to the rules of the National Police Service (NPS) which operates under our constitutional mandate. They operate with total impunity as if they are above the law."
}